So last week I went in search of another message board. * Don’t look at me like that!* I was still going to be here, just not as much. I was looking for something with fewer members, where everyone had some of the same interest.
I found a promising one for people in my age group. My membership was accepted, and by the time I signed on they already had a thread welcomming me!
Then the horror struck. They allow html and gifs in their posts.
The combintations of background and font colors, was seizure inducing, not to mention the font sizes.
But the most terrifying, were the gif.s.
There were Angels and Kitties and Puppies and Teddy Bears…
and…and…and…s…s…some of them were…an…an…ani…animated! I got scared, and came back here. Now if only I could stop trembling.
::offers hillbilly queen reassuring hug::
There, there…the bad animations won’t hurt you here…you’re safe now.
But watch out for those errant smilies!!!
[psst, that’s okay, I post on the Cooking Light message board sometimes, too. It’s okay, really! Just as long as we’re still your favorite…]
So what, you’ve been here a year, and already you’re checking out other boards? I know we’ve gained some new users, but we thought you liked us for more than just the speed of our page loads. I mean, you’re sorry now, but how long until your mouse starts wandering again?
I think we can forgive you, but we’ll need some time.
Do ya see what happens when you do stuff like that? Do ya see?
Heh. 
We are a forgiving bunch, but…:eek:
Yeah, I learned my lesson when I tried out the message board at utne.com. Good God, they let those touchy-feely threads go on FOR!!! EVER!!!
I post on the Armor Archive forum occasionally, and they allow people to post images. Right there in their posts! I’m living in constant fear of what I might see when I open a new thread. It’s driving me to drink. [sub]diet coke, anyway, but you get the idea.[/sub]
Do we get hot and steamy makeup sex if we forgive you?
I fully admit to being on a couple of other boards. Technically, I’m even still a member of the left behind boards, though I don’t post there anymore (well, once in a blue moon).
While I don’t mind them - really, I don’t mind the other boards I’m on…one of them does have all the cruddy butterflies and birds and stuff and annoys me to a point…this is “home” in a sense.
I’m a member over at Fathom, but that’s an exception. At least in my mind. Which isn’t working well lately. Or ever. Pass the Bud Light Please.
Did you at least think about us while you were over there?
And where’s my chocolate and roses, hmmmm? No diamond bracelet, either, hmmmm?
I think you’ll have to sleep over at ATMB for a while…until I get over this betrayal…
Did you ever call out “SDMB” while you were posting there?
I’m a bureaucrat and consultant for kids with disabilities. I sometimes check out web boards on different disabilites just to see what’s out there.
I recently checked out a “parents board” for kids with a specific disability. OMG! Animated kitten and puppy backgrounds, inspirational qoutes on top of the background, a complete disregard of science or even research. Yikes!
I felt like a 19 year old Goth who had gotten trapped in a Hallmark Card/Potpouri Shop/ Mary Kay Cosmetics / Precious Moments mall. “Make the happy pink color go away! Go away!”
I had to read an entire issue of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis to calm down.
Whistlepig
Disclaimer: The board obviously was helpful to some of the parents. And that’s good. They’d probably run screaming from some of my professional boards which can have a thread that runs for days on the difference between “needed transition services” and “transition service needs” in CFR 300.314, Section 1, subsection (a)(3)(b).
I strayed once too. I posted to a video game board a while back.
It was the sigs that finally did it. What are people thinking? Fifty line long sigs in twelve colors and font sizes, quoting entire songs by their favorite lame ass recording artist?
Add that to the images, animated (shudder) cartoon figures, and 1337-speak (God, I can’t believe I just typed that).
I felt so…cheap.
Isn’t it positively frightening that other boards where they is a large female population seem to all * have a puppy/angel/hearts/pink-frou frou theme to them. And they cannot talk about anything else but their kids in iddle widdle baby tawk. * ACK. It is as if (IMHO) the collective intelligence of woman is in the toilet.
It makes me weep.
**SDMB: Accept No Substitutes. **
I don’t understand.
Are you saying there might be other message boards someplace else?
That the SDMB might not be the only one? That’s darned close to heresy.
I don’t believe you.
I must make a confession. I had been toying with the idea of joining another mesage board, as well. But what I have read here has truly opened my eyes. Puppies? Kitties? Animated teddy bears? I… I had no idea. And baby talk?
That was bad enough. And then someone mentioned a disregard of science and research… I can’t hear you! I’m not listening!
Hillbilly queen, your selfless admission has saved me from experiencing horrors I had never even imagined. I can’t thank you enough.
[Highlander]There can be only one.[/Highlander]
For penance you must prostrate yourself naked before the altar and say 10 “Hail Cecils”.
And then… Oh hell, forget that, let’s just go with astro’s suggestion of hot steamy makeup sex. 
Ugly